In November 2024, Elon Musk posted on social media, "There should be no need for [Freedom of Information Act] requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency." His ...

During the first Trump administration, one law arguably played an outsized role in fueling accountability reporting on the federal government. The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, has long been a ...

Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, our democracy still depends on a free press. And a free press depends on people willing to sustain it. Freedom of Information Day and Sunshine ...